Scum Male's Whitewashing Manual

4.7

In the remote mountain village, Wang Tie and Wan Youlan got up early in the morning.

Wang Tie went to the fields, while Wan Youlan wanted to sit in the yard and sew clothes. A few years ago, she was so tired that she couldn't do rough work, and her waist ached a little too much. All the heavy work in the family had to fall on her husband, Wang Tie. She took on some work of making clothes in town and peddled on a sewing machine in the yard every day.

The two were less than fifty years old, but both had pale temples and sallow faces.

Their early savings were spent on searching for a child, they could not live in the city any more. So, they had to go back to the village. In addition to going to the field, Wang Tie would also go to the town to work as a coolie. Although they did not earn much money, both of them were frugal and saved money, so they hoped to spend the money on a newspaper notice.

But the child was too young when he was lost, and there was no special mark on his body, only a mole on the back of his neck, but it was so common that he should be 25 now, after so many years of searching.

Wan Youlan, who was stepping on the sewing machine pedal, thought of her son, and her face showed a bit of sadness as soon as she stopped her feet.

(TNote: pedal sewing machine = they are antique sewing machines that are operated by gears, you turn them on by moving your feet/foot back and forth. Usually looks large and bulky, attached to a table.)

What she was afraid of was not that she could not find the child, but that the child had suffered somewhere she could not see. When her son was first lost, Wan Youlan had nightmares every night, dreaming that her child was crying for his mother.

He was so young and well-behaved and had just learned to speak; But every time he saw her coming back, he smiled and wanted to hug. Wan Youlan worked hard in the city at that time. As long as she thought of the child in her hometown, she would be refreshed again.

She thought of working hard, to make money, to settle down in the city before her son goes to school. To bring her mother-in-law and child here, and how good it would be for a family of four, such a beautiful family.

But it's gone, there's nothing left...

Wan Youlan stepped on the pedal all day, and her back hurt so badly that she put a pillow on her back and went on until it was a little dark. Wang Tie, who had finished his work and went to town, returned excitedly.

"Youlan, someone called me to say that he saw a man under the bridge in S City who looked like our son. Look, there's a picture here."

As he said that, Wang Tie handed over the old mobile phone. There was indeed a man in the picture who looked like he was in his twenties. He was bowing his head and she couldn't see his face clearly. He had lost a leg and was wearing shabby clothes. He was eating the steamed bun in his hand. The parts exposed was thin and dark, and he looked very embarrassed.

"The man said that he was abducted and trafficked when he was a child. He only remembers that his father's surname was Wang, and he had a mole on the back of his neck. He is the right age."

Wan Youlan looked at the man in the picture. He only has one leg, which made her body feel cold.

Whenever she thought that the man who seemed to have suffered a lot would be her own child, she felt as if she was going to be torn up.

"He, could he be..."

Wan Youlan is looking forward to it, but also hoping for a 'no'.

She wanted to get her child back, but she didn't dare to think about how much he would have suffered if it was really her son.